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	Sinuiju Special Administrative Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region (Sinŭiju T'ŭkbyŏl Haengjeonggu; 신의주 특별 행정구; 新義州特別行政區) is a special administrative region (SAR) of North Korea, on the border with China.
		It was established in September 2002 in an area including parts of Sinŭiju and the surrounding area, in an attempt to introduce market economics, and is directly governed as in the case of "Directly Governed Cities".
		Due to the areas included in the Special Administrative Region, it is not one single contiguous region, as to get from Sinŭiju city to Yŏmju county, one must pass through another county outside the region first.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinuiju_Special_Administrative_Region (269 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sinuiju Special Administrative Region
		Namp'o Administrative divisions of North Korea As of 2004, North Korea consisted of two directly-governed cities (Chikalshi; 직할시;直轄市), three special administrative regions with various designations, and nine provinces (Do, singular and plural; 도; 道).
		Geography of North Korea Kaesŏng Industrial Region (Kaesŏng Kongŏp Chigu) is a special administrative region of North Korea.
		Kŭmgangsan Tourist Region (Kŭmgangsan Kwangwang Chigu) is a special administrative region of North Korea.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sinuiju-Special-Administrative-Region (856 words)

	Korean Central News Agency Sep 20 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
		According to the law, the region is a special administrative unit under the sovereignty of the DPRK and the state puts the region under the central authority.
		The chief of the administration is the governor and the posts of department chief of the administration and the chief of the police agency shall be held by residents of the region.
		Trial in the region shall be undertaken by the court of the region and district courts.
	www.mail-archive.com /sipila@kominf.pp.fi/msg00115.html (2606 words)

	Stop That Sinuiju Nonsense
		Smaller numbers of expatriates (was that the sound of drooling South Korean vampires flying back from Sinuiju?) would pocket the fruits of their endeavors, after passing money under the table to the various authorities all along the way to Pyongyang.
		Sinuiju is not a plan for cynical anti-imperialists to admire, rather it is politically evil.
		Sinuiju, that fairy-tale island of prosperity in a desert of incompetence, is a bad idea that needs to vanish.
	www.kimsoft.com /2002/steinberg.htm (751 words)

	flag of Sinuiju Special Administrative Region (North Korea) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly adopted the Basic Law of the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region on September 12, 2002.
		The law consists of six chapters (government, economy, culture, fundamental rights and duties of residents, structure and emblem and flag of the region) and a total of 101 articles.
		The region shall use not only the emblem and flag of the DPRK but also its own emblem and flag and the order of their use shall be established by the region.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/kp-sinui.html (222 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Oktober 2002 00:00 ALERT-CHINA-NKOREA-ARREST China arrests Sinuiju special administrative region chief Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap Beijing, 4 October: Yang Bin, governor of North Korea's special administrative region Sinuiju, was arrested by the Chinese authorities on Friday morning for reasons as yet unannounced, a Chinese government official said.
		There are strict regulations about the administration of hospitals for the mentally ill and the admission of mental patients, and set procedures must be followed in the hospitalization of mental patients.
		Municipalities directly under the central government and cities at the sub-provincial level in the western region may adjust their residence registration policies and relax the restriction on the move of professional people to meet the practical needs of economic and social development as long as they can bear the impacts of such adjustment.
	www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /oasien/china/service/bbc/021005.txt (3830 words)

	DPRK to Set up Sinuiju Special Economic District
		According to the law, the region is a special administrative unit under the sovereignty of the DPRK and the state puts the region under the central authority.
		The chief of the administration is the governor and the posts of department chief of the administration and the chief of the police agency shall be held by residents of the region.
		The prosecution affairs of the region shall be undertaken by the prosecutor's office of the region and the district prosecutor's offices.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200209/23/eng20020923_103689.shtml (853 words)

	Sinuiju Designated As Hong Kong-Type Special Zone: First Market Economy Experience in DPRK
		The legislative Supreme People’s Assembly Presidium on September 12 issued a decree on setting up a special administrative region in the northwestern port city, which encompasses 132 square kilometers (50 square miles) to be put under the central authority of the government.
		The law stipulates that the special zone shall have an independent legislative council, regional and district administrations, courts ranging from the supreme court to local ones, the police, prosecution offices of the region and districts, and that it shall use its own emblem and flag plus those of the state.
		The Sinuiju government not only can exercise its own currency and financial policies but also is entitled to implement its own preferential customs system to determine the customs rate and earmark a budget at its own discretion in accordance with approval by the central government.
	www1.korea-np.co.jp /pk/184th_issue/2002092802.htm (679 words)

	North Korea - Sinuiju Special Administrative Region for Economic Reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to the law, the region is to be a special administrative unit under the sovereignty of the DPRK.
		The state endorses the region with legislative, executive and judicial powers and shall keep the legal system of the region unchanged for 50 years (period of leasing the land of the region shall last until December 31, 2052).
		The plan to transition the city into a capitalist showcase involves sealing off the city with a specially built wall, replacing many of the city's inhabitants with handpicked skilled workers (mainly skilled Chinese workers from across the river, and tearing down and replacing most of the existing buildings (sparing historical buildings).
	www.vic-info.org /regionstop.nsf/65354f99849a34e08a2568390005de17/1070bdbedbe973990a256c49000550c5?OpenDocument (584 words)

	Pyongyang Report
		The land and natural resources of the region belong to the DPRK and the state allows the region to be turned into an international financial, trade, commercial, industrial, up-to-date science, amusement and tourist center.
		The DPRK shall encourage the region to properly pursue its cultural policies so as to enhance its residents’ creativity and meet their demand for cultural and emotional life, introduce up-to-date science and technology and actively develop new domains of science and technology.
		Trials in the region shall be undertaken by the court of the region and district courts.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /~caplabtb/dprk/pyr4_4.html (2680 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: The Hermit Kingdom's Bizarre SAR -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The government plans to deport Li, his factory, and the 500,000 residents of Sinuiju to other parts of the communist country to make way for a capitalist paradise as ambitious as it is bizarre.
		The Sinuiju gambit, however, is aimed at one of the country's few allies: China.
		Sinuiju is short of everything an economic hub needs to operate, including decent roads, commercial transport and proper water facilities.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501021007-356131,00.html (1890 words)

	Korean Central News Agency Sep 19 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
		Speakers said that he visited the Far Eastern region of Russia at a time when the U.S. imperialists and the world's reactionaries were getting overheated in their moves for aggression and war and the U.S. imperialists' ambition for unipolar world was all the more pronounced.
		Recalling that it was disclosed that the united states staged mock trainings for nuclear attacks on the DPRK in 1998, the statements said that the U.S. moves for a nuclear war against the north have been more undisguised since the bush administration.
		The region shall be directly put under the central authority as a special administrative unit of the DPRK.
	www.mail-archive.com /sipila@kominf.pp.fi/msg00109.html (1955 words)

	United Press International - Business & Economics - Analysis: North Korea on capitalist path? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"The state shall give the region to develop, use and manage the land and encourage the businesses in the region to hire manpower from the DPRK (North Korea)," it stated, quoting from a recent decree by the North's highest decision-making body, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly.
		One of these -- Shenzhen, China's first special economic zone -- was created in 1980 and developed from a tiny fishing village into one of the country's richest cities.
		"Sinuiju's openness is broader than that of Shenzhen," he said, because it includes the sectors of entertainment and tourism.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20020923-043547-8311r (1318 words)

	[No title]
		The Sinuiju Special Administrative Region, a groundbreaking undertaking, would immerse 50 square miles of the isolated North in capitalism, an apparent reflection of the government's willingness to embrace the world.
		The IRS and Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration said they are "conducting research of various databases to identify potential non-filers," and that beginning this December they will mail letters to inquiry to those identified as potential non-filers.
		But taxpayers can avoid that penalty under a special provision if they promise to take a series of "substantially equal periodic payments" from their accounts for at least five years or until age 59 1/2, whichever is later.
	www.salestax.org /news/thisweeksnews_10-11-02.html (9704 words)

	United Press International - Business & Economics - N Korean capitalist runs afoul of Beijing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Plans to create the new special economic zone had been unveiled several weeks before by North Korea's legislative People's Assembly, the nation's decision-making body, in a historic change of policy.
		The North Koreans had agreed to allow foreigners to hold administrative posts in the new economic zone and U.S. dollars would be used as currency in the soon-to-be walled metropolis, Yang told reporters.
		Sinuiju has no electrical power and would be forced to buy electricity from the Chinese city of Dandong, which is located just across the Yalu river from the North Korean enclave, industry sources said.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20021007-110956-5170r (1471 words)

	North Korea appoints Chinese to lead its first major foray into capitalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yang Bin, an orchid exporter and property developer, said the "Sinuiju Special Administrative Region" would demonstrate the hard-line North Korean regime's willingness to foster global trade by creating a zone entirely separate from the staunch ideology that has been North Korea's hallmark for half a century.
		Sinuiju, a city of 400,000 on the banks of the Yalu River, links North Korea to China by rail and bridge.
		He said a wall would be built to separate the region from the rest of the country and that part of the work force would be imported from China.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/756040/posts (1890 words)

	CTV.ca \| North Korea aiming to attract foreign investors
		He said his appointment as chief executive of the "Sinuiju Special Administrative Region" by North Korean leaders "shows their willingness to be involved in the international community and international politics."
		The northwest city of Sinuiju is the country's main gateway to China, North Korea's last remaining major ideological ally and trade partner.
		He said a wall would separate the region from the rest of the country and that part of the work force would be imported from China.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1032813478697_384 (492 words)

	cantonrep.com
		SINUIJU, North Korea (AP) — On a swath of land that touches China, North Korea’s insular regime is concocting a major step toward an economic revolution — turning a low-key border town into a walled-off laboratory of foreign investment for the world’s most isolated communist nation.
		In many places — from the farmland around the city to the streets of Sinuiju itself — the region resembles China in 1979, when it was poised to open to the outside world yet replete with architecture, slogans and fashions from the days of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
		In Sinuiju, under sunny skies, schoolchildren with white shirts and red scarves walked in the streets near a towering metal statue of Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s late leader and father of the current president, Kim Jong Il.
	www.cantonrep.com /index.php?ID=65010&Category=24 (730 words)

	CanKor - 11 October 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Administrative Region in the North Korean border town of Sinuiju.
		administration and the chief of the prosecutors' office of the region.
		administration is the region's executive body and general administrative organ.
	www.cankor.ligi.ubc.ca /issues/101.htm (3614 words)

	pyongyang_watch_10
		Yang is widely expected to model Sinuiju, a small city that abuts northeastern China, after Hong Kong, now a special administrative region with different economic and political rules than the mainland - and a special charter that promises it autonomy for 50 years.
		Sinuiju, a city of 400,000 on the banks of the Yalu River, links the DPRK and the PRC by rail and bridge.
		And, although some conservative voices in Asia give credit to the Bush administration's hard-line rhetoric, by suggesting that "the more Washington pushes, the more Pyongyang bends in the current international climate of global war against terror," it is obvious that they themselves clearly prefer more conciliatory and constructive approaches for their own sake.
	members.fortunecity.com /leonid7/pyongyang_watch_10.htm (9309 words)

	N. Korea Readies Capitalism Entry
		Yang Bin, an orchid exporter and property developer, said Monday that the 50-square-mile oasis of capitalism near the country's northwestern coast would be free of the staunch ideology that has been North Korea's hallmark for half a century and reflects the government's willingness to open up to world.
		It is separated from the socialism,'' said Yang, speaking in Mandarin Chinese at a news conference held in the capital to unveil his appointment.
		The northwest city of Sinuiju is the nation's main gateway to China, North Korea's last remaining major ideological ally and trade partner.
	www.serve.com /Lincolnheritage2/About_Us/Resources/Wkly_Magazine/New_Articles/N__Korea_Readies_Capitalism_En/n__korea_readies_capitalism_en.html (489 words)

	CanKor - 10 September 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1992, she was elected a councillor for the city of Fullerton, a southern suburb of Los Angeles, and became mayor in 1995.
		Kim was persuaded to accept the idea of a special zone in Sinuiju in 2002, as a way to save his declining regime.
		With 300,000 people, Sinuiju resembles a Chinese city in the 1970s: its streets are dark at night because of power cuts, essential goods are rationed, and its people are dressed in drab clothes.
	www.cankor.ligi.ubc.ca /issues/179.htm (4229 words)

	CNN.com - N. Korea's SAR 'ready for visitors' - Sep. 28, 2002
		North Korea's newly announced special economic zone will allow foreigners to enter without visas as early as next week, a spokesman for the China-based entrepreneur leading the project said Saturday.
		Details were still being worked out with the Pyongyang government, The Associated Press reported a spokesman for Yang as saying Saturday, but visa-free access to the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region is expected to begin Tuesday.
		The creation of the new economic region also follows moves by Pyongyang last July to liberalize pricing and wage systems and also the relaunching of normalization talks with South Korea and Japan.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/09/28/nkorea.sar (627 words)

	Bulletin - Waiting on the Dear Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Even better news for these border regions is the fact that areas like Changbai, China, had a 74% leap in trade in the first 11 months of 2002.
		Pyongyang’s announcement of the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region in September – a plan modeled on China’s special economic zones – died an even quicker death.
		Several weeks after the plan was unveiled, Yang Bin – the Dutch-Chinese businessman appointed to head the economic region – was jailed in China on tax-evasion charges and North Korea shelved the project indefinitely.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/6f41c1d13a3b1f07ca256c2700808185/732e81fa99cc5767ca256cad001180bd?OpenDocument (633 words)

	IFES >> Academic Activity ======= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		First, in September 2002, authorities passed the Basic Law of the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region, which created “one country with two systems”and#8212;which is similar to the system of Hong Kong of China.
		Although the law allows more independence and discretion in the special area than that of Hong Kong, the project received a serious setback from the very beginning when its first Governor Yang Bin, a Dutch businessman of Chinese ethnicity, was arrested and jailed by Chinese authorities on charges of tax evasion and other commercial crimes.
		In fact, they amount to a special administrative zone where ordinary DPRK laws are excluded as far as business activities are concerned.
	ifes.kyungnam.ac.kr /eng/activity/06_icnk_brief_view.asp?icnkbriefNO=2&page=1 (2161 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Last month, the Chinese orchid tycoon made the headlines when Pyongyang announced that he was to become the chief executive of Sinuiju Special Administrative Region (SAR), a walled capitalist enclave in hardline-communist North Korea.
		The details of the Sinuiju proposal, announced by Yang at a news conference in Pyongyang on September 23, outlined a Hong Kong-style SAR with its own legislature, court and currency.
		Yang said the SAR would be built on 132 square kilometers of land at Sinuiju on the Yalu River, opposite the city of Dandong in China's northeast.
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/alert2450.html (1083 words)

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